Collecting-portfolio.



W. WITTGENSTEIN.

GOLLEGTING PORTFOLIO.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE s, 1910.

Patented Apms, 1911.

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COLLECTING-PORTFOLIO.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 8, 1910.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911. Serial No. 565,865.

folio in a manner that they can be bentk away from the back and pushedthrough a folded sheet of paper and be bent back toward the back, fromwhich they can be easily detached.

The invention consists in weaving the binding wires side by side in amanner that they freely project from the strip thus formed. These stripscan be more easily fastened to the portfolio than the known strips, forinstance, by pasting or stitching.

In the drawing the invention is illustrated.

Figure 1 shows a collecting-portfolio with the requisite binding stripsin a perspective view. Fig. 2 shows a strip per se, on an enlargedscale.

The single binding wires Z) are woven together to a band a in a mannerthat they freely project from the strip. The band is fastened bystitching or pasting to the inside of the back of thecollecting-portfolio c.

The single binding wires are bent up on the two strips in succession asrequired, and as shown in Fig. 1, pushed through the fold of the sheet Zto be fastened. Hereupon the two wires are bent down again upon thesheet.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is Acollecting portfolio f provided with woven wire sheet retaining strips,each strip having projecting free wire ends adapted to be folded overupon the sheet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto` signed my naine this 13 day ofMar., 1910, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WERNER WITTGENSTEIN. Vitnesses TALBOT J. ALBERT, J r., TnsnWITTGENSTEIN.

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